9-letter words containing i, n, t, r
- bannister — Sir Roger (Gilbert). born 1929, British athlete and doctor: first man to run a mile in under four minutes (1954)
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- barbitone — a long-acting barbiturate used medicinally, usually in the form of the sodium salt, as a sedative or hypnotic
- barbotine — a type of clay paste used in making decorated pottery
- baritonal — of or relating to a baritone
- baritones — Plural form of baritone.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- bartizans — Plural form of bartizan.
- bartokian — characteristic of the music of Béla Bartók: driving, percussive, Bartokian rhythm.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- benefiter — a person who derives benefit
- benighter — a person who keeps others in darkness
- bernstein — Leonard. 1918–90, US conductor and composer, whose works include The Age of Anxiety (1949), the score of the musical West Side Story (1957), and Mass (1971)
- bertillon — Alphonse [al-fons,, -fonz;; French al-fawns] /ˈæl fɒns,, -fɒnz;; French alˈfɔ̃s/ (Show IPA), 1853–1914, French anthropologist: devised Bertillon system.
- beta iron — a nonmagnetic allotrope of pure iron stable between 770°C and 910°C
- bettering — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- bicentric — having two centres
- binervate — (of leaves) having two longitudinal ribs
- binturong — an arboreal SE Asian viverrine mammal, Arctictis binturong, closely related to the palm civets but larger and having long shaggy black hair
- bioparent — a biological parent
- birthname — a name given at birth
- bittering — having a harsh, disagreeably acrid taste, like that of aspirin, quinine, wormwood, or aloes.
- bitternut — an E North American hickory tree, Carya cordiformis, with thin-shelled nuts and bitter kernels
- blueprint — A blueprint for something is a plan or set of proposals that shows how it is expected to work.
- bonetired — completely exhausted
- botanizer — a person who botanizes
- bothering — to give trouble to; annoy; pester; worry: His baby sister bothered him for candy.
- bowstring — the string of an archer's bow, usually consisting of three strands of hemp
- brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
- brainstem — the stalklike part of the brain consisting of the medulla oblongata, the midbrain, and the pons Varolii
- braintree — a town in E Massachusetts, near Boston.
- breasting — Anatomy, Zoology. (in bipeds) the outer, front part of the thorax, or the front part of the body from the neck to the abdomen; chest.
- breastpin — a brooch worn on the breast, esp to close a garment
- breathing — the passage of air into and out of the lungs to supply the body with oxygen
- brechtian — Bertolt [ber-tawlt] /ˈbɛr tɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1898–1956, German dramatist and poet.
- bridgeton — a city in SW New Jersey.
- brilliant — A brilliant person, idea, or performance is extremely clever or skilful.
- brimstone — Brimstone is the same as sulphur.
- brimstony — of, relating to or resembling brimstone; sulphurous
- bring out — When a person or company brings out a new product, especially a new book or CD, they produce it and put it on sale.
- bristling — Bristling means thick, hairy, and rough. It is used to describe things such as moustaches, beards, or eyebrows.
- britannia — a female warrior carrying a trident and wearing a helmet, personifying Great Britain or the British Empire
- britannic — of Britain; British (esp in the phrases His or Her Britannic Majesty)
- brittling — having hardness and rigidity but little tensile strength; breaking readily with a comparatively smooth fracture, as glass.
- brittonic — Brythonic
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- brominate — to treat or react with bromine
- bronxites — the, a borough of New York City, N of Manhattan. 43.4 sq. mi. (112 sq. km).
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- butterine — an artificial butter made partly from milk